only person
collocation in Englishmeaningsofonlyandperson
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only
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈəʊn.li/us/ˈoʊn.li/
used to show that there is a single one or very few of something, or that there are ...
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person
noun[C]
uk/ˈpɜː.sən/us/ˈpɝː.sən/
a man, woman, ...
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(Definition ofonlyandpersonfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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He himself is generally theonlypersonwho is in a position to give the necessary evidence.
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He said that theonlypersonwho had benefited was the trader.
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He is theonlypersonasking for compensation.
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I am not theonlypersonto say that.
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He may be theonlypersonwho understands to some extent what the soldiers we are discussing went through in the first world war.
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He was theonlypersonto give his life to the boycott agitation.
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Her greatniece is theonlypersonbesides her pastor who she reports talking with openly and with whom she shares intimate thoughts.
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Indeed, the traditional notion of finiteness, unsatisfactory as it may be, tookonlyperson-number inflection as criterial.
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She was theonlypersonto whom this buttoned-up but emotional man could express his innermost feelings.
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At the time, you were probably theonlypersonwhose approach to economics was very mathematical.
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Theonlypersonof the subject that appears to favor zero copula is the second-person plural 0 singular.
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It contains notonlyperson- and numberfeatures, but also gender-features in the past forms.
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He saw himself as almost theonlypersonin the whole district who cared about the ordinary people.
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I wasn't theonlypersonthinking about repeated games.
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Her daughter-in-law remained theonlypersonto bring water and rice gruel three times a day and to clean away her excrement in the evening.
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A healthcare professional is theonlypersonwho can appropriately diagnose you.
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She was theonlypersonwithin her family who had eaten this herb and theonlypersonwith confirmed cyclosporiasis, in her family.
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Shaftesbury was not theonlypersonfacing treason charges in the summer of 1681.
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We had to ask the exporter concerned for the evidence of his pricing because he is really theonlypersonwho can give the evidence.
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